Aftermarket front seat for G22 - advice and guidance needed

[tom4416]

My front seat bottom is beyond help - plastic is cracking underneath, vinyl torn and split and the foam itself is falling apart (dry desert air is not always the best environment for some things!). The OEM seat bottom is no longer available so I'm looking at the aftermarket ones with the wood bottoms, drilled and fitted with inserts in the right places it looks like from the pictures.

Anyone using one of these and was the switch over just a matter of moving hardware? Quality versus OEM? Did you waterproof the exposed wooden bottom? Other alternatives that you would think are better?

Thanks for any helpful guidance/advice

[tom4416]

Well, I'll answer my own question. Got the aftermarket seat which has the wood bottom instead of plastic. It does have threaded inserts in all the right places to transfer over all the metal from the old seat. Vinyl appears to be as thick and flexible as the original material, everything fit where it was supposed to and upholstery now looks brand new. Very happy with the purchase even though it's not OEM.

Between a new OEM carb, valve adjustment, new OEM drive and generator belts, one shot lube of the clutches and this upholstery update, cart looks and runs almost new again, think it's probably good for another 10 years.